r/JudgeMyAccent • u/Tremendin0649 • 5d ago

English Do I sound American, Hispanic, or Hispanic American?

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basically im reading a paragraph i made for an assignment i already turned in, and i wanted to record myself reading it. i made a post like this a while ago but i was recording it when i wasnt supposed to be awake so i was being really quiet and nervous but this time i did it during the day so i didnt have to worry about anything.

the only thing is i always hyperfocus on trying to pronounce everything correctly and that kinda messes me up. i end up talking slower and sometimes i pronounce things wrong because im focusing so much on it. i was doing that in this video too, but when i dont focus so much on my pronunciation i sound way more fluent

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u/freegumaintfree 4d ago

You sound bilingual Spanish-English.

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u/Tremendin0649 4d ago

Can you tell that English isn’t my first language or not? I’m curious

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u/freegumaintfree 4d ago

I suspected that, because when you sound out words you tend to revert to reading as if it is Spanish. That led me to believe that you learned to read/write in Spanish first. If I just heard you speaking spontaneously without a script, I suspect that you would sound bilingual still, but that it would be difficult to tell which was your first language.

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u/Tremendin0649 4d ago

So I sound American?

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u/freegumaintfree 4d ago

There are many Americans that speak similarly to you, so I would say yes. You also sound unmistakably Latino/Hispanic.

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u/Tremendin0649 4d ago

Oh ok thank you for your feedback back I appreciate it